For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Continuing through Dec. 1: "The Dial—An AR Experience." This installation is free and open to the public, but free tickets are required. Visit https://nebraskarep.org/the-dial for hours and more information. Shows run every 20 minutes. "The Dial" is an interactive narrative that combines Augmented Reality and Projection Mapping. The mysterious story of a formerly wealthy American family begins with a tragic late-night car crash. A middle-aged woman smashes through the stonewall in front of her family home. Told from shifting perspectives, including two young girls snooping from next door, the elderly mother, the police, and the omniscient house that sits at its center, the rich visual tale reveals the family’s emotional underbelly and unravels what happened that fateful night.
• Continuing through Nov. 22: "Anatomy of a Fall." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. When her husband Samuel is found dead at their remote mountain home, Sandra becomes the main suspect. What follows is an unsettling psychological journey into the depths of their conflicted relationship.
• Continuing through Nov. 30: "The Tunnel to Summer, The Exit of Goodbyes." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Two troubled students investigate a tunnel that can grant wishes, in this story of nostalgia, young love and bending time based on the award-winning manga.
• Nov. 27-Dec. 1: "Making History" Exhibition at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 12:30-4:30 p.m. A closing reception will be held Friday, Dec. 1 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery. Admission is free and open to the public. The class, which has been taught by Associate Professor of Art Margaret Bohls every three years since 2014, is composed of undergraduate and graduate students in the School of Art, Art History & Design. Throughout the semester, Bohls presents a series of lectures about specific cultures, geographic areas and time periods. Each student chooses several objects that they then research and reproduce using, as much as possible, the materials and techniques used by the original makers.
• Nov. 24-30: "Common Ground." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. The sweeping and uplifting story of the pioneers of the “Regenerative Movement” who are creating a new system that produces tremendous quantities of nutritionally dense food while balancing the climate, healing our bodies, and bringing our entire ecosystem back to life.
• Nov. 29: UNL-LPS String Project Winter Concert. 5:30 p.m. Park Middle School in Lincoln. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 30: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture with Terry James Conrad, assistant professor and program head of printmaking at the University of Iowa. 5:30 p.m. Woods Art Building Rm. 11. Free and open to the public. Conrad is an Iowa Print Media Faculty Fellow and also serves as the University of Iowa liaison to Frogman’s Print Workshops. Conrad’s work often revolves around scientific collaborations and tool making.
• Nov. 30: Jazz Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Location to be announced. Free and open to the public.
• Dec. 1: World AIDS Day Concert. 4-6 p.m. International Quilt Museum, 33rd and Holdrege streets in Lincoln. Free and open to the public. A free-will donation to support the Nebraska AIDS Project will be taken. Come celebrate World AIDS Day with a performance of the songs from the AIDS Quilt Songbook and learn what the University of Nebraska is doing to fight AIDS across the state and the world. The event is sponsored by the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, the International Quilt Museum, the Glenn Korff School of Music, the UNL Gender and Sexuality Center, UNMC, and the Nebraska AIDS Project.
• Dec. 1: Flyover III. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Dec. 1-2: Student Dance Project. 7:30 p.m. each night. Temple Building at 12th and R streets. Free and open to the public.
• Dec. 1-7: "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Filmmaker Rick Goldsmith will be here Friday, Dec. 1. He will present at IGNITE at 12:30 p.m. at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at 13th and Q streets. And he will attend the 7 p.m. showing and participate in a Q&A session after the film. "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink is the story of a secretive hedge fund that is plundering what is left of America's newspapers, and the journalists who are fighting back.
• Dec. 1-7: "My Sailor, My Love." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A widowed sailor living on the coast of Ireland unexpectedly falls in love with hisnew housekeeper. This new romance opens old wounds with his daughter,threatening their idyllic seaside love story.
• Dec. 2: Wind Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130 and 119. Free and open to the public. The concert is titled "No. 31." The program includes David Maslanka's "California," Kimberly Archer's "Common Threads," Chen Yi's "Spring Festival," Carol Britton Chambers' "La Terre Sacree" and Alfred Reed's "El Camino Real."
• Dec. 3: Welcome All Wonders. 2:30 and 7 p.m. Newman Center at St. Thomas Aquinas Church. Free and open to the public. Welcome All Wonders is a family yuletide festival of choirs featuring holiday favorites, traditional carols and other works.
• Dec. 4: Repertory Jazz Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• Dec. 5: Percussion Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Dec. 6: Jazz Singers. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link. The UNL Jazz Singers, with special guests The Nebraska Vocal Jazz Project, present a concert titled "Bright With Love."
• Dec. 7: Cornhusker Marching Band Highlights Concert. 7:30 p.m. Lied Center for Performing Arts. Tickets are $20 general and $10 for students and seniors and are available through the Lied Center Box Office or online at https://go.unl.edu/cmbhighlights.
• Dec. 7: A Service of Choral Evensong. 7 p.m. St. Mark's on the Campus. Free and open to the
• Dec. 8: Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Alumni Board Award nominations are due. These awards include the Alumni Achievement Awards, Student Leadership Award and Award of Merit. he nomination form and additional information is available at http://go.unl.edu/fpaalumawards.
• Dec. 8: Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Open Studios. 5-7 p.m. Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at 13th and Q streets. Free and open to the public. Featuring work from multiple classes from the fall semester from students in both the emerging media arts and theatre-design and technical production programs.
• Dec. 8: Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. St. Paul United Methodist Church, 1144 M St. Free and open to the public.
• Dec. 8-9: School of Art, Art History & Design Student Art Sales. Hours for the sales are Friday, Dec. 8 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 9 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to the sales is free and open to the public. Cash, checks and credit cards will be accepted at both sales. Both sales feature works of art created by graduate and undergraduate students. Both sales also feature a raffle for a chance to win work by graduate students, alumni and faculty.
• Dec. 8-14: "The Stones and Brian Jones." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. The Stones and Brian Jones explores the creative musical genius of Jones and uncovers how the founder of the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world was left behind in the shadows of history.
• Dec. 9: Big Red Singers. Time to be announced. Norris High School in Firth, Nebraska. Free and open to the public.
• Dec. 9: UNL Opera presents "Amahl and the Night Visitors." 1:30 and 3 p.m. Studio Theatre in the Temple Building, 12th and R streets. Free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Advanced tickets will be available at https://go.unl.edu/GKSOMtickets beginning on Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 6 a.m. "Amahl and the Night Visitors" is composed by Gian Carlo Menotti with libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti. Presented under license by G. Schirmer, Inc., copyright owners.
• Dec. 15: Applications are due for the Nebraska Young Artist Awards. The awards recognize 11th-grade students from Nebraska who are talented in visual art, dance, music, theater, and film and emerging media arts (which includes film, 3D models, interactive art, sound design and video games). Full instructions are available at https://go.unl.edu/nyaa.
• Dec. 15-21: "Maestro." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Special note: This will be the first movie at The Ross to be shown with Dolby Atmos sound. Limited theatrical engagement before the film is released on Netflix on Dec. 20. Bradley Cooper stars in this biographical drama that centers on the relationship between American composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia Montealegre. "Maestro" premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival in September, where it was nominated for the Golden Lion.
• Dec. 15-21: "Fallen Leaves." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A gentle tragicomedy from director Aki Kaurismäki, following two lonely people who meet each other by chance and try to find the first, only, and ultimate love of their lives.